Last week, the students of Savremena International School played squash during their PE lesson. This sport is ideal for all ages. Why is squash the healthiest sport of all? According to the well-known magazine, Forbes, squash was declared the healthiest sport in the world ahead of swimming, rowing and basketball. Squash engages an important number…
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It is a well-known fact that Jovan Cvijić is Serbia’s most famous geographer, scientist and academic, but did you know that it was thanks to him that the words ‘field’ and ‘valley’ found its place in world’s dictionaries. At the exhibition ‘The Belgrade Atlas of Jovan Cvijić’, the students of Savremena International School had the…
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The International Day of Tolerance is celebrated on 16th of November globally. Consequently, the entire week in Savremena International School was dedicated to this topic. Why do we celebrate the International Day of Tolerance? The grounds which make us different from each other have no significance whatsoever. If we are tolerant and willing to show…
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Our students engaged in analysing this very epic last week within their Serbian language and literature lessons. Our Serbian and arts teachers, Mirjana Vasic Adzic and Ana Manojlovic made an effort to make the artistic images from this epic reverberate in their minds for a long period of time. They connected the contents of their…
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In collaboration with the Pedagogic Society of Serbia, Savremena International School has prepared a seminar on 13 and 14 November with the topic of Professional development of associate experts meant for the specialising psychologists and learning support consultants. Psychologists and learning support consultants from more than thirty primary and secondary schools from Belgrade and Pancevo…
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Have you ever heard of “geo-chemistry”? In Savremena, our students don’t find this science unfamiliar, because interdisciplinary lessons are rather frequent here. Connecting information from various subjects is utterly important for acquiring functional knowledge, and that is why one lesson combined geography and chemistry. By conducting experiments our students learnt about the destruction and decomposition…
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The Savremena International School celebrated last week the International Education Week under the slogan “My International Journey”. On that occasion, the students and teachers of Savremena International School organised different activities thus contributing to this important international event. In addition to having learned a lot through games and fun time, the students had the opportunity…
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After the first trimester, our students showed with their hard work and excellent marks that they were true students of Savremena. Among all of them, there were the ones who excelled. Our teachers in Savremena take pride in their students’ success, whereas their classmates try to follow their examples. Our Teachers’ Council decided to give…
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Savremena’s geography teacher, Ivan Matejic, in collaboration with colleagues from other areas, published a textbook and a workbook for Nature and society subject for the fourth grade of primary school. The aforementioned books are part of a set authorised by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development in Serbia and published by Novi Logos…
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Considering the fact that every lesson in Savremena is different, on 2 and 5 November our students visited one of the hotels in our capital with their business teacher, Tatjana Vilcek. This hotel was “Constantine the Great” and they visited it with the purpose of witnessing managerial operations in business firsthand. Interaction with successful people…
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On 4 November our school received a special guest. A renowned author, a long-time proofreader and the editor of “Kreativni centar”, Violeta Babić, visited our school. The encounter with the author After our students’ successful visit to this year’s book fair, Savremena gave its students an opportunity to meet Violeta Babić and attend her novels’…
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On Saturday 31 October, Savremena International School organised a Halloween party for its teachers and students. Preparations for Halloween Last week in Savremena was characterised by Halloween preparations. In the school’s dining room, our students carved pumpkins with their arts teacher and designed decoration for the party, while scary music that teachers used to contribute…
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Savremena’s students had a chance on 26th and 28th October to either show or discover their skills and hidden talents in the bowling alley “Žabac” in Zemun Sports Centre “Pinki”. The students acquired new moves, learnt a lot of interesting facts about bowling, competed in teams and, above all, had good time! They are quite…
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Last week, Savremena International School celebrated Halloween in such a way that all lessons were dedicated to discovering new details regarding this holiday. Among the typical ways of celebrating Halloween, our students also had a chance to discover historical and geographical concepts of this holiday and perceive it from various different angles in order to…
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On Thursday, 29 October, Savremena organised a visit to this year’s 60th anniversary of the Belgrade book fair which is held under the slogan “What would be if it weren’t?” At this year’s fair, Savremena also had its own stand and presentation, and so one of the stops along the way was the stand of…
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Arts classes in Savremena are not meant only for the talented students. Each class is designed in a way that all students can take a peek into the world of arts and feel its beauty and significance. As true high school students, our students learn the history of arts in an original and interesting way,…
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Teaching at Savremena International School is truly different and so are the PE lessons. We want to enable our students to test their skills at various disciplines, develop a variety of skills and to achieve sports results in addition to academic. For this purpose, on 19th and 21st October, as part of the PE lessons,…
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Students chose class presidents and vice presidents on democratic elections. On Wednesday, 20 October, the first electoral results regarding class presidents and vice presidents were announced in Savremena. Students circled two names on a sheet of paper which they afterwards put in a box, reflecting the style of real elections. After counting the votes, the…
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Starting from late October, the parents of Savremena International School students have another important and useful benefit: every day, they will receive SMS notifications regarding their children’s attendance. This SMS service will be in its trial, beta version for a while yet, so we kindly ask all parents for understanding. What are SMS notifications like?…
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Savremena International School has become a part of the sports games that will be held at the level of the Vračar Municipality, City of Belgrade and throughout Serbia. With pride and drive for success, we entered into a Protocol of School Sports Games and Competitions, where we are to compete with other schools and students…
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On Friday, 9 October, Savremena International School celebrated the day of St. John the Theologian, its patron saint. Both students and employees welcomed the priest early in the morning so that he could perform the sanctification act and the ritual of carving the cake. This was a special day for all of us, since this…
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Every history, art, music and world literature textbook begins with a lesson on the culture of ancient civilisations. In the previous month Savremena’s students familiarised themselves with how human cultures and histories began developing. Wishing to make the acquired knowledge as memorable as possible, Savremena International School took its students onto an educational field trip.…
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Savremena International School students had their first outdoor public lesson – the Danube and the Sava rivers cruise. It was cheerful and noisy at the Danube quay across the Great War Island. Savremena International School students were eagerly waiting with their teachers to get on board and start a two-hour adventure. Belgrade through the centuries…
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The best school year at Savremena International School has begun – not on the first of September, when the school year officially starts, but a day earlier. Principal Svetlana Belić Malinić, along with all school personnel, wanted to facilitate the students’ encounter with the new environment and make the start of the school year truly…
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After a great number of students successfully enrolled, on Saturday, the 5th of September, Savremena International School welcomed its youngest students into the M-E-S programme. Students aged 12-15, from various parts of Serbia (Belgrade, Čačak, Kragujevac…) wanted to acquire the Savremena flavour of knowledge at this Cambridge programme and prepare for further education at Savremena…
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Primary and secondary school students who registered on time, attend the unique Summer School programme provided by Savremena International School at 45 Šumatovačka Street in the Vračar municipality, whereby they attend classes twice a day until the 10th of July. This year, the summer school workshops are free while in the future, the attendance fee…
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Last week, Savremena International School had a wonderful, yet by no means easy task of awarding scholarships to a select number of brilliant young students. As expected, there were many who showed an interest in our scholarship programme and with such a multitude of marvelous young thinkers the decision to whom scholarships would be awarded…
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Apart from providing an unmatched learning experience, Savremena International School is also among the few Cambridge Global Perspectives schools in the region. What this means is that our students have the opportunity to take Global Perspectives, a unique and interdisciplinary Cambridge subject and receive an innovative, interdisciplinary, creative and unique kind of education. Students are…
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Bloom’s taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). It divides educational objectives into three “domains”: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor (sometimes loosely described as “knowing/head”, “feeling/heart” and “doing/hands” respectively). Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at…
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It’s a breathtaking concept — but for the OECD, it’s a very real way of finding out how well-prepared today’s students are to participate in society. If you’re not quite sure what PISA is or does, and you’ve got about 12 minutes to spare, grab a comfortable chair. This video will help you to understand…
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Odlično obrazovanje zahteva mnogo više od novca. Osim određenog nivoa troška po svakom učeniku ponaosob, bitan je i način na koji su sredstva raspoređena. Iako Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo troši više na obrazovanje od većina članica OECD (Organizacija za ekonomsku saradnju i razvoj), ono ne spada u prvih 20 zemalja po napretku u oblasti matematike, lektire i…
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